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Record company catalogs
If your goal is to find new release information on recordings issued by a record company at a given point in time, then these resources are a good place to start. Catalogs are important because business records of early companies have rarely survived; they can contain entries for records no one has seen, or records that were never actually issued.
- MATRIZ (Asociación Española de Documentación Musical)Cooperative database of Iberian record label catalogs published up to 1959
- British Library Early Record Catalog CollectionA selection of digitized record company catalogs aimed at the British market and issued between 1898 and 1926
- Fondo dei Cataloghi Discografici StoriciA selection of digitized Italian record catalogs held by L’Istituto Centrale per i Beni Sonori ed Audiovisivi
- Pathé frères catalogs (Bibliothèque nationale de France)A small collection of digitized cylinder and disc catalogs for the Pathé label
- International Bibliography of Discographies: Digital Discography CollectionDigitized discographies and record company catalogs
- Record Catalog Collection (Stanford)Finding aid for the catalog collection at Stanford's Archive of Recorded Sound